Louise Silverman

for Design By Louise 1996

4 Infant & Toddler's Cardigan & Pullover (3 mos - 2 yrs)WEB EXCLUSIVE

"Easy sweater with mini cables," says Silverman. In all the annals of traditional sweater design, these pieces are starred. There is just enough interest to keep the knitter and viewer happy, yet the cables and colourwork are terribly understated. Silverman rarely dabbles in finer yarns, but here they serve her purposes perfectly: everything is so refined and restrained that the pieces look almost like fiber jewels. She is careful to point out that the sweater in the picture only shows two cables, one below each shoulder; but her pattern really calls for three, one running down the centre from the neck.